They come in this neat little box, so when you're not learning your ABC's you can stow them away!

They are made of heavy, cat-proof cardboard so they won't bend or rip unless you try REALLy hard!

They also have round edges so little hands won't poke them into little eyes.

Here's a few of my favorite cards! There are 26, naturally, but it would make this post very verrrryyyyy long to post all 26 of them.

If you have the previously mentioned Princess Matching Game, you're probably having deja-vu right now. That's because a good portion of artwork for these cards was up-cycled from the matching game.

Why did I use a dorky word like up-cycle? Because a funny thing happens when you take artwork from a 2" card and blow it up to 6": it needs to be adjusted, and spruced up, and man, does it ever look different when it's bigger! And three years have gone by!

I had to do a lot of adjusting and composing and photoshop magic to make the old artwork useable. Fortunately for me, I tend to keep EVERYTHING on separate layers in photoshop and label each layer meticulously, so opening up the old files was not too bad. But it WAS still a lot of work.

Here's the king and queen from the matching game. The biggest differences are little things: the king's medals got more refined, and so did the queen's pearls. They looked so blobby when I resized them! I also had to adjust her dress shape and re-do all the details in her hair. It was like they both got make-overs!

...and then some of the cards are just entirely new artwork, like this horse draw carriage! H is for Horse drawn carriage!

R is for Princess Rose: Princess Rose got a make-over, and like all the princesses on these cards she also got her name-sake flower put in her hand.

J is for Jewels! I loved working on this card.

N is for Nighttime: I like this one a lot. It's a friendly kinda nighttime.

Y is for Yawn: This is straight out of the book!

M is for Marigold. Marigold made the cover of the box.

S is for Shoes...I love this card.

And I is for Iris. I like this one because Iris sort of looks like she's pretending her iris is a microphone.

It was definitely a unique experience re-visiting my own artwork. Usually you put something out there and that's it, it's done, no do-overs. I never imagined I'd get the chance to go back and fix/tweak/refine these gals.

Stay tuned for a winner to be announced next week!!

...and PS: did you notice that cute little black doggy on the front of the box??

These look wonderful! I'm definitely looking to own some of your artwork in the future. Still sad that I missed out on your Bad Dads piece from last year. It's always lovely seeing posts from you on this blog.

Hi Brigette, I am no artist, but I am a huge fan of your work! You have actually inspired me to learn more about art and painting because your artistic style has just been so inspiring :) Here's me coming out of my shell to share this with you because I would love to win these absolutely beautiful flash cards. Even if I don't win, thanks for sharing your work on here, love the blog. <3 Lucy chantellebears@gmail.com

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I graduated from CalArts with a BFA in Character Animation in 2007. I like tea and books and general old lady-ish stuff, and I hate it when peoples toes hang over the edge of their sandals. I draw pictures for a living, sometimes for animation but more often for children's books.
You can reach me at: brigette.b@hotmail.com. Don't be shy.